Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks The Torre Aquila deployment

Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have limited visual impact—a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of artistic interest. This paper describes one such system deployed in Torre Aquila, a medieval tower in Trento (Italy). Our contributions range...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks pp. 277 - 288
Main Authors: Ceriotti, Matteo, Mottola, Luca, Picco, Gian Pietro, Murphy, Amy L., Guna, Stefan, Corra, Michele, Pozzi, Matteo, Zonta, Daniele, Zanon, Paolo
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 13.04.2009
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Computer systems organization > Embedded and cyber-physical systems
Computer systems organization > Real-time systems
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Design
Hardware
Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
Heritage buildings
Life estimation
Lifetime estimation
Middleware
Monitoring
Networks
Networks > Network services > Network monitoring
Networks > Network types > Mobile networks
Networks > Network types > Wireless access networks
Operating systems
Poles and towers
Software systems
Stability
Wireless sensor networks
ISBN:1424451086, 9781424451081
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Abstract Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have limited visual impact—a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of artistic interest. This paper describes one such system deployed in Torre Aquila, a medieval tower in Trento (Italy). Our contributions range from the hardware to the graphical front-end. Customized hardware deals efficiently with high-volume vibration data, and specially-designed sensors acquire the building's deformation. Dedicated software services provide: i) data collection, to efficiently reconcile the diverse data rates and reliability needs of heterogeneous sensors; ii) data dissemination, to spread configuration changes and enable remote tasking; iii) time synchronization, with low memory demands. Unlike most deployments, built directly on the operating system, our entire software layer sits atop our TeenyLIME middleware. Based on 4 months of operation, we show that our system is an effective tool for assessing the tower's stability, as it delivers data reliably (with loss ratios ≪0.01%) and has an estimated lifetime beyond one year.
AbstractList Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have limited visual impact—a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of artistic interest. This paper describes one such system deployed in Torre Aquila, a medieval tower in Trento (Italy). Our contributions range from the hardware to the graphical front-end. Customized hardware deals efficiently with high-volume vibration data, and specially-designed sensors acquire the building's deformation. Dedicated software services provide: i) data collection, to efficiently reconcile the diverse data rates and reliability needs of heterogeneous sensors; ii) data dissemination, to spread configuration changes and enable remote tasking; iii) time synchronization, with low memory demands. Unlike most deployments, built directly on the operating system, our entire software layer sits atop our TeenyLIME middleware. Based on 4 months of operation, we show that our system is an effective tool for assessing the tower's stability, as it delivers data reliably (with loss ratios ≪0.01%) and has an estimated lifetime beyond one year.
Author Guna, Stefan
Picco, Gian Pietro
Zonta, Daniele
Mottola, Luca
Ceriotti, Matteo
Pozzi, Matteo
Murphy, Amy L.
Zanon, Paolo
Corra, Michele
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: Matteo
  surname: Ceriotti
  fullname: Ceriotti, Matteo
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 2
  givenname: Luca
  surname: Mottola
  fullname: Mottola, Luca
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 3
  givenname: Gian Pietro
  surname: Picco
  fullname: Picco, Gian Pietro
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 4
  givenname: Amy L.
  surname: Murphy
  fullname: Murphy, Amy L.
  organization: Bruno Kessler Foundation-IRST, Trento, Italy
– sequence: 5
  givenname: Stefan
  surname: Guna
  fullname: Guna, Stefan
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 6
  givenname: Michele
  surname: Corra
  fullname: Corra, Michele
  organization: TRETEC S.r.l., Trento, Italy
– sequence: 7
  givenname: Matteo
  surname: Pozzi
  fullname: Pozzi, Matteo
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 8
  givenname: Daniele
  surname: Zonta
  fullname: Zonta, Daniele
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale, University of Trento, Italy
– sequence: 9
  givenname: Paolo
  surname: Zanon
  fullname: Zanon, Paolo
  organization: Dip. di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale, University of Trento, Italy
BookMark eNqNkDtPAzEQhI0ACRJSU9BcSZPg9fMsKhTxkoJo0lv23SYxSc7IPhTx7zHkfgBT7Gh3NFt8I3LWxQ4JuQY6k0V3oCgDJWd_buCETIyuyyJlzTWoUzICwYSQQGt1QSY5f9AiIZnW9JLcv8Uu9DGFbl1tMIXerbHyX2HXlkuuDqHflJFwhzlXGbscU9Vhf4hpm6_I-crtMk4GH5Pl0-Ny_jJdvD-_zh8WU8eE7qfcNwpbAO1Mi0qia6mva0cbcKxtcCWF5OClFsI0ilLDXA1OCfAt99xoPiY3x7cBEe1nCnuXvq1kAIaJks6OqWv21se4zRao_SVjBzJ2IGN9Crgqhdt_FvgP2DxjAQ
ContentType Conference Proceeding
DBID 6IE
6IL
CBEJK
RIE
RIL
DOI 10.5555/1602165.1602191
DatabaseName IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings
IEEE Xplore POP ALL
IEEE Xplore All Conference Proceedings
IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)
IEEE Proceedings Order Plans (POP All) 1998-Present
DatabaseTitleList

Database_xml – sequence: 1
  dbid: RIE
  name: IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)
  url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
  sourceTypes: Publisher
DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline Engineering
EISBN 9781605583716
1605583715
EndPage 288
ExternalDocumentID 5211924
Genre orig-research
GroupedDBID 6IE
6IF
6IK
6IL
6IN
AAJGR
AARBI
ACM
ADPZR
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
APO
BEFXN
BFFAM
BGNUA
BKEBE
BPEOZ
CBEJK
GUFHI
IERZE
OCL
RIE
RIL
AAWTH
LHSKQ
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-a247t-3bc6ed117a9de65ead0b88a0c1a2dcef54531b57449c60092a81a641bd3b3973
IEDL.DBID RIE
ISBN 1424451086
9781424451081
ISICitedReferencesCount 123
ISICitedReferencesURI http://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=Summon&SrcAuth=ProQuest&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=000275711800024&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
IngestDate Wed Aug 27 02:16:03 EDT 2025
Wed Jan 31 06:36:52 EST 2024
Wed Jan 31 06:36:53 EST 2024
IsPeerReviewed false
IsScholarly false
Language English
LinkModel DirectLink
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-a247t-3bc6ed117a9de65ead0b88a0c1a2dcef54531b57449c60092a81a641bd3b3973
PageCount 12
ParticipantIDs ieee_primary_5211924
acm_books_10_5555_1602165_1602191_brief
acm_books_10_5555_1602165_1602191
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 20090413
2009-April
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2009-04-13
2009-04-01
PublicationDate_xml – month: 04
  year: 2009
  text: 20090413
  day: 13
PublicationDecade 2000
PublicationPlace Washington, DC, USA
PublicationPlace_xml – name: Washington, DC, USA
PublicationSeriesTitle ACM Conferences
PublicationTitle 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
PublicationTitleAbbrev IPSN
PublicationYear 2009
Publisher IEEE Computer Society
IEEE
Publisher_xml – name: IEEE Computer Society
– name: IEEE
SSID ssj0000452770
Score 1.854293
Snippet Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have limited visual impact—a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of...
Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have limited visual impact-a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of...
SourceID ieee
acm
SourceType Publisher
StartPage 277
SubjectTerms Computer systems organization -- Embedded and cyber-physical systems
Computer systems organization -- Real-time systems
General and reference -- Cross-computing tools and techniques -- Design
Hardware
Hardware -- Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
Heritage buildings
Life estimation
Lifetime estimation
Middleware
Monitoring
Networks
Networks -- Network services -- Network monitoring
Networks -- Network types -- Mobile networks
Networks -- Network types -- Wireless access networks
Operating systems
Poles and towers
Software systems
Stability
Wireless sensor networks
Subtitle The Torre Aquila deployment
Title Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks
URI https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5211924
WOSCitedRecordID wos000275711800024&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
link http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwlV1LS8NAEB7a4kEvPlqxvlhB8GLabLK7SbyJWDxI6aGH3sLuZgMFTbVp_f3OJGlVEMRckg0bWL7Mzuxrvg_gWsZW-U4bj5vEeEJb5WknsOOFUpskUDjErVRLnqPxOJ7NkkkLbre5MM656vCZG9BjtZefLeyalsqGkujIAtGGdhSpOldru55C1OBR5G9ytyQpCG0onZoyr6l9JF5DrjC4KTmo7kTQ2db29YfCShVgRvv_a9oB9L4y9dhkG4MOoeWKI9j7RjLYhVndbanAKNlvhR6EmUYNu2S0EMuIsPgFfR4rcVa7WLKiPhxe3jE0IzYlBQ92_47faJY5kgim1vRgOnqcPjx5jZ6CpwMRrbzQWOUyziOdZE5JtCHfxLH2LddBZl2Og6mQGxkJkeAP9JNAx1wrwU0WGhy2hMfQKRaFOwGGNWTiZ0EuEoQ2iGObZ-QrrLYU9EUfrhDOlOYJZYrTDII8bSBPG8j7cPNnndQs5y7vQ5cAT99q_o20wfr099dnsLvZ8fH5OXRWy7W7gB37sZqXy8vKaD4BhXG5wg
linkProvider IEEE
linkToHtml http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwlV1LS8NAEB7aKqgXH61YnysIXkybTXbz8CZiqVhLDz30FnY3Wyhoq03r73cmSauCIOaSbNjA8mV2Zl_zfQBXMjKBa5V2uI61I5QJHGUFdjxfKh17AQ5xc9WSXtjvR6NRPKjAzToXxlqbHz6zLXrM9_LTmVnSUllbEh2ZJ6qwIYXw3CJba72iQuTgYeiusrckaQitSJ3KMi_IfSRebR5geAtkK78TRWdVmdcfGit5iOns_q9xe9D4ytVjg3UU2oeKnR7AzjeawTqMio5LBUbpfgv0IUyXetgZo6VYRpTFL-j1WIbz2tmcTYvj4dktQ0NiQ9LwYHfv-I1iqSWRYGpNA4adh-F91ykVFRzliXDh-NoENuU8VHFqA4lW5OooUq7hykuNHeNwyudahkLE-Avd2FMRV4HgOvU1Dlz8Q6hNZ1N7BAxryNhNvbGIEVovisw4JW9hlKGwL5pwiXAmNFPIEpxoEORJCXlSQt6E6z_rJHo-seMm1Anw5K1g4EhKrI9_f30BW93hcy_pPfafTmB7tf_j8lOoLeZLewab5mMxyebnuQF9AmJsvQk
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=proceeding&rft.title=2009+International+Conference+on+Information+Processing+in+Sensor+Networks&rft.atitle=Monitoring+heritage+buildings+with+wireless+sensor+networks%3A+The+Torre+Aquila+deployment&rft.au=Ceriotti%2C+Matteo&rft.au=Mottola%2C+Luca&rft.au=Picco%2C+Gian+Pietro&rft.au=Murphy%2C+Amy+L.&rft.date=2009-04-01&rft.pub=IEEE&rft.isbn=9781424451081&rft.spage=277&rft.epage=288&rft_id=info:doi/10.5555%2F1602165.1602191&rft.externalDocID=5211924
thumbnail_l http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781424451081/lc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true
thumbnail_m http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781424451081/mc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true
thumbnail_s http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781424451081/sc.gif&client=summon&freeimage=true